I really thought I would do better on the swim, but I lost sighting twice and swam a LOT of extra yards to get back on track.

Spend more time to pause and sight correctly. I think I lost more time getting off track than I would have lost by sighting more.

I lost about 15 seconds by dropping my goggles with the wet suit strippers, who I was really glad to see since the WTC official I was talkign to before the race said he didn't think there would be any wetsuit strippers. This was my first ocean swim and my first wetsuit swim in a race, so I needed all the help I could get!

Just not drop my goggles. A lot of time was spent catching my breath, so I'm not sure how much faster I would have been in T1.

That headwind was awful! I have no idea how so many people finished so much better than me on the bike portion. I'm not a small person so maybe the wind got me more and I don't have a fancy bike. It felt like I passed many more than passed me but maybe those were participants in the sprint tri that was going on at the same time.

I think I should have fought to stay behind some of the faster packs. Even with the three bike length rule I could still have benefited from some drafting in that kind of headwind.

I started to fall when I was running my bike into transition and banged it around a little. Otherwise, T2 went very well. I could have gone faster but took a few extra seconds to reload on GU since I used up my stash on the bike.

I did okay on T2. No big changes.

Did I really have my best overall ranking in the run? I guess most of my training was in the run and it paid off. This is a pretty good 10K time for me - even if I hadn't just done the swim and run portions!

I had very little left at the end so I think I gave it what I had to give.

Holy cow! I missed my goal of under 3 hours by 27 seconds! So then I banged my head against a pole for a couple of minutes... grabbed some post race food and talked to some folks.


The old adage is that it's not the will to win that counts... It's the will to prepare to win that really matters. I have more work to do on the preparation side.


The safety crews and setup crews were a notch above for this race, presumably because of the WTC. The field seemed to be stacked with great competitors, which is probably true. I'm usually a solid middle of the pack guy, but slipped back a little because of all the great competition and it was a pleasure to watch them work!